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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1893
Page
2
Artecs offers ready to wear garments with seal quality and first class trimmings. Trousers can be made on six hours notice with a guaranteed fit. The note mentions ROWILER & CO and American sailors as past work references.
New students continue arriving as campus activity increases. Lectures, religious services, and athletic plans fill the week. A library expansion with new commentaries and rotating windows adds to student life while a larger military department forms with new cadet leadership and drill work.
The column reports sermons at Bethany, Sunday School notes, weather with melting snow, a spelling school at Enterprise, and a young man elected to the Enterprise school board. It also covers health updates for Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Reasoner, injuries to Hiram Taylor, family moves to Palto Alto county, and farewells as neighbors depart. An Ames move and local social events follow, including a wedding of T. B. Dodds and Maggie Kooser with detailed celebra tions and a future home in Primghar Iowa.
The Audubon Sentinel covers Women’s Section editor Jean Roberts Albert and W S A meetings with Mrs Stevens. Mrs Anna Potter runs for Kansas City mayor. Mrs Rothrock to lecture on franchise March 21 at Congregational church. Isabella souvenir coins praising women’s work to be issued by the U S Government. Kansas legislature moves to strike male from constitution. Cedar Rapids notes praise for women in public schools. Mrs Potter Palmer cited for advancing women’s work and the first completed women’s building.
An item notes a complete assortment of red shoes and hose at Tilden's, plus Mrs Rorurocx addressing a W R C meeting on March 21. Also mentions Tux C N W depot and Lockwood’s elevator, and about three hundred cords burned at Polk City Monday night.
The ad promotes a complete clothing stock for all shoppers with affordable prices, urging customers to remember Biertow & SMITH for neat suits, pants, or vests.
Guests celebrated the fifth wedding anniversary of Herbert and wife on March 13 at their home. After the host returned, games from grandparents days, a lunch, and music by Cooper, Lang, and Mr Lang followed, with poetry by Mrs Armstrong and a keepsake presentation. One guest signs off with fond reflections.
Auction set for Tuesday March 21 offering eight mares aged five to eight years with four in foal two yearling mares a two year old gelding two spotted mare colts nine milch cows some calves and future fresh cows one yearling heifer two year old bull two sows Poland boar two shoats one sheep two dozen chickens farm tools hay corn oats wheat and household goods. Terms one year on sums five dollars and up on approved notes at eight percent cash under five dollars. J B Merrirr.
The article notes the first robins of spring arriving last Thursday and mentions local happenings. Aunt Izak will stop daily cooking duties, and Miss Jennie Robinson of Boone visits relatives in this area. Willie McCarthy fractured a collar bone after a horse accident last Friday. Dr. Templeton set the fracture and he recovers. Mary and Jennie Raff plan to teach in Tama county this spring and fall. Ole Hill will move to a farm near Gilbert this week.
Reports describe bare ground and an unusually early grass growth in bluegrass pastures. Spring birds arrived about a week early, Old Skunk caused a bridge scare, and Mr. Will Hughes faced a risky kerosene fire incident last night.
Mr and Mrs E B Stewart spent Sunday in Ames. Brubaker family moved into W L Marshall property last Thursday with Brubaker taking charge of the lumber business for Mr Oliver this summer. Impassable roads kept Rev Douglas from keeping his appointment Sunday. J B Thomas and wife started for Nebraska. Cochrane and wife of Denver visited the Shearer home. Rev Henderson and wife visited McCalisburg. Co P McFarlan visited Boone Sunday.
A local critique condemns the spread of vicious rumors about an industrious man. The writer likens gossip to a prairie fire and cannibalistic relish, urging Christians to abandon such slander and find moral restraint.
Resolutions express sorrow at the death of Charles E Hunt's wife, praising her as a model Christian member. Ames Lodge No 309 I O O F extends sympathy and requests divine consolation, with a copy and record entry to be made. Signed by G W O Brien and R H McCarthy.
Mrs. Sara L. Rorurock announces lecture on Political Equality at Congregational church Tuesday evening March 21. The item notes clothing sale by Bicelow and Smith with prices from 50 cents to 1.00 and mentions J. B. Merritt selling eighty acre farm near Ames for 50 per acre to Capt. Greeley. The Times comments on departures from Story county.
Bigelow and Smith advertise clothing at half price in a business listing. The notice highlights very cheap prices and urges customers to shop now.
Iowa Sheep Breeders and Wool Growers Association to hold its annual festival at College Farm in Ames on April 5 and 6 with a spring meeting. Farmers from Story county and other states invited. prizes offered for classes and breeds. Program includes morning and evening sessions with lectures by W M Beardshear, C L Gabrilson, and others.
A brief, cryptic notice from O. F. Martin promising to retrieve and reinstall stores in the fall at a cost lower than rivals. The message reads like a personal sales pitch and references blocking hands, implying urgency or demand.
Local ad announces a sale on ladies fine shoes at Reynold's Bros with a closing event and mentions Biozr Low and Suren as pricing notes and brands.
Advertisement notes spring hosiery and underwear on display from G. G. TrupEn Estate Best Cabinet Photos. Deals on sugar and macintosh footwear from Tilden's. Trapper buyers pay high prices for furs including mink and skunk. Tariff washing machines promoted by agents.
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